17 Distributed Systems and Web Scalability Resources

No long write-ups this week, just a short list of some great resources that I've found very inspirational and thought provoking. I've broken these resources up into two lists: Blogs and Presentations.

Blogs

The blogs listed below are ones that I subscribe to and are filled with some great posts about capacity planning, scalability problems and solutions, and distributed system information. Each blog is authored by exceptionally smart people and many of them have significant experience building production-level scalable systems.

Nati Shalom's Blog: Discussions about middleware and distributed technologies
http://natishalom.typepad.com/nati_shaloms_blog/

All Things Distributed: Werner Vogels' weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/

High Scalability: Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites
http://highscalability.com/

ProductionScale: Information Technology, Scalability, Technology Operations, and Cloud Computing
http://www.productionscale.com/

iamcal.com
http://www.iamcal.com/ (the "talks" section is particularly interesting)

Kitchen Soap: Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations
http://www.kitchensoap.com/

MySQL Performance Blog: Everything about MySQL Performance
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/

Presentations

The presentations listed below are from the SlideShare site and are primarily the slides used to accompany scalability talks from around the world. Many of them outline the problems that various companies have encountered during their non-linear growth phases and how they've solved them by scaling their systems.

Scalable Internet Architectures
http://www.slideshare.net/shiflett/scalable-internet-architectures

How to build the Web
http://www.slideshare.net/simon/how-to-build-the-web

Netlog: What we learned about scalability & high availability
http://www.slideshare.net/folke/netlog-what-we-learned-about-scalability-high-availability-430211

Database Sharding at Netlog
http://www.slideshare.net/oemebamo/database-sharding-at-netlog-presentation

MySQL 2007 Techn At Digg V3
http://www.slideshare.net/epee/mysql-2007-tech-at-digg-v3

Flickr and PHP
http://www.slideshare.net/coolpics/flickr-44054

Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches
http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches

How to scale your web app
http://www.slideshare.net/Georgio_1999/how-to-scale-your-web-app

Google Cluster Innards
http://www.slideshare.net/ultradvorka/google-cluster-innards

Sharding Architectures
http://www.slideshare.net/guest0e6d5e/sharding-architectures

If anyone knows of some that I've missed (I'm sure there are many), please list them in the comments and I'll add them to the lists above.

Comments

[Mike]

Here is another scalability blog that you might find interesting.
http://akfpartners.com/techblog/

[DriverMax CEO]

Thank you for the excellent scalability resources. The HighScalability blog, included in your list, helped us a lot scale DriverMax.

[Udi Dahan]

The guys at HighScalability.com have recently featured one of the posts from my blog on their site:

http://www.udidahan.com/2008/12/29/building-super-scalable-web-systems-with-rest/

I have gathered several hundred of these kinds of posts in my blog over the years and think that readers may find some value there as well:

http://www.UdiDahan.com?blog=true

Thanks.

[Stephen Hill]

Thanks again Max :) You've given me ALOT to read!!